Love this interaction on our Discord. Calling all FathomNauts, join the FathomVerse Discord to connect with fellow ocean nerds! discord.gg/8NgTarHE5z 🌊🐙🫰

go off queen!

Left to right: Emily, Marko, Joost, and myself on the Falkor Too as we depart Salvador on the Designing the Future 3 expedition with Schmidt Ocean Institute.

The aft deck of Falkor Too leaving the port of Salvador Bahia Brazil. Tug boat follows behind.

The helipad of Falkor Too facing seaward.

And we’re off! Goodbye Salvador Bahia. Next stop: ocean’s 🌊midwaters. Hoping to come across MANY undescribed animals 🦑 and do some science. 🧪 Can’t wait!! #DesigningtheFuture3 @schmidtocean.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social

Led by Dr. Karen Osborn, the #DesigningTheFuture3 expedition will use cutting-edge prototype technologies to explore midwater biodiversity, imaging midwater animals in both their natural setting and in virtual-reality aquaria.

Follow @schmidtocean.bsky.social for more updates!

All aboard! YouTube video by FathomVerse

All aboard! The FathomVerse team is embarking on an expedition off the coast of Brazil on R/V Falkor (too).

While our team is at sea, you can earn 5 new badges! Play FathomVerse to earn the ALL ABOARD badges!
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#Falkortoo #FathomVerse #DesigningTheFuture3

woohoooooo!

ROV SuBastian wants to know if you have voted! We've been nominated for a People's Voice Webby, and you can cast your vote here: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Agreed!

Every week FathomNauts on our Discord vote for a cutie of the week. Join the #FathomVerse Discord community so you can vote on cuties too! discord.gg/7RVNvvymA7

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A variety of colorful sea anemones, primarily in shades of orange and red, are attached to a rocky underwater landscape.

Underwater scene featuring an octopus navigating a rocky seabed, surrounded by red pom-pom anemones.

Anemone of my anemone is a friend… because we love sea anemones!

Play 15 rounds of Bound before April 14th to earn an Anenomadness badge!

📸 NOAA Ocean Exploration
📍 Denson Seamount, Gulf of Alaska

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#FathomVerse #Okeanos #NOAA #DeepSea #SeaAnemones

This image celebrates being a Webby Honoree, featuring the Webby Awards logo at the top. Below, there is an underwater theme with various ocean animals surrounding the "fathomverse" logo, set against a deep blue background. Ornate silver borders frame the image. The hashtag #webbys is at the bottom.

FathomVerse is a Webby Honoree! Recognized for AI Application & Experience at the 30th Annual Webby Awards among the top 25% of 13,000+ entries. Huge congrats to everyone who helped build it. We're using gaming and community science to accelerate ocean discovery. 🌊

#Webbys #FathomVerse

A variety of colorful sea anemones, primarily in shades of orange and red, are attached to a rocky underwater landscape.

Underwater scene featuring an octopus navigating a rocky seabed, surrounded by red pom-pom anemones.

Anemone of my anemone is a friend… because we love sea anemones!

Play 15 rounds of Bound before April 14th to earn an Anenomadness badge!

📸 NOAA Ocean Exploration
📍 Denson Seamount, Gulf of Alaska

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#FathomVerse #Okeanos #NOAA #DeepSea #SeaAnemones

A vibrant underwater scene features a rocky surface covered with pink, orange, and white anemones. A small starfish is visible among the anemones. The image includes the logo of FathomVerse on the bottom right corner.

NEW BADGE: ANEMOMADNESS

There's a maddening number of anemones in #FathomVerse right now! If you're looking for type 2 fun AND stunning #anemones, play 15 rounds of Bound before April 14th to earn the **Anemo-madness** badge!

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🌊Accelerating ocean discovery with AI 🌊
Thank you to everyone at hashtag#OSM26 who participated in the #FathomNet town hall yesterday, and to everyone who attended our talks and posters throughout the week. Let's stay in touch!

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FATHOMNET TOWN HALL TODAY @ 12:45 (the sound red theater)

We'll share how you can share visual data, analyze ocean video, and expand engagement through gaming.

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@tosoceanography.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social

#OSM26 you don’t want to miss the FathomNet town hall on Thursday! We’re sharing how your can extend engagement through FathomVerse and all the latest in the FathomNet program.

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Today at #OSM26 replace scrolling with ocean exploring! Find us in the poster hall – Emily Clark is presenting a poster on #FathomVerse.

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This image is a poster for a FathomNet event at OSM26. It features a blue and white design with ocean imagery, including urchins on the left. The text details a Town Hall about accelerating ocean visual data analysis with FathomNet, scheduled on Thursday, 26 February 2026, from 12:45 to 13:45 at Hall 3, The Sound (SEC). Additional presentations, posters, and networking opportunities are mentioned.

Attending #OSM26 in Glasgow? Join us for the FathomNet Town Hall on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 12:45.

We'll demo the FathomNet Database, Portal, and FathomVerse. Come with questions, leave with solutions. See you there!

Save to your calendar: www.fathomnet.org/news/fathomn...

Look for:
🔦 Human-made equipment used for scientific purposes
🦾 Robotic arms
🧪 Vessels for collecting samples
🌡️ Measuring instruments
🤖Not a living organism, but also not trash or rocks

Select 'Equipment' in training mode to get started!

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NEW EQUIPMENT MISSION ADDED TO FATHOMVERSE
Now you can label and bound scientific equipment that you see in FathomVerse! Here are some helpful tips for identifying equipment. ⬇️

FathomVerse community makes significant contributions to ocean exploration in 2025 • MBARI The FathomVerse mobile game invites ocean enthusiasts to help train AI to recognize marine life. The collective efforts of FathomVerse players worldwide are enhancing the AI models researchers rely on...

In 2025, the FathomVerse community made significant contributions to ocean exploration 📱🌊

The collective efforts of @fathomverse.bsky.social players are enhancing the AI models that researchers rely on to better understand marine ecosystems and ocean health. Read more: www.mbari.org/news/fathomv...

Community | FathomVerse Join our community of ocean enthusiasts and gamers.

Want FathomVerse in your inbox??? Subscribe to emails for fun, funky, fresh newsletters! www.fathomverse.game/community#em...

eeeeeeeee! hi @sarahmackattack.bsky.social thanks for coming to my talk 😊

A jellyfish is using a phone and thinking “oh sucks. Squid lemme log that” with the other words “community scientists help id animals from images from the deep sea with a phone game”

MBARI created a game called @fathomverse.bsky.social that gamifies identification of animals from the deep sea!

Listening to a talk about this super cool work at #SICB2026

2025 Year in Review infographic by Fathomverse, displaying various statistics: 19,676 Images Labeled, 194,217 Regions of Interest, 4,037,497 Annotations, 36,351 Players, 16,573 Hours Played, set against a dark blue background.

Promotional graphic for Fathomverse, titled 'Moving Up the Ranks'. It features a blue pyramid diagram divided into three levels, showing the number of players at each level: 34,866 players in Level 1-7, 426 in Level 8-14, and 286 in Level 15, labeled as 'Denizens of the Deep'.

Promotional poster titled 'WITH GRATITUDE' by Fathomverse, thanking various organizations like Schmidt Ocean Institute, MBARI, Dawn Wright, Joost Daniels, Ocean Networks Canada, and NOAA Ocean Exploration for contributing data and images, with specific image counts listed beneath each name.

Poster titled 'Top Favorites' by Fathomverse featuring six marine animals in a grid layout, including a ghostly pale octopus, a vibrant orange squid, a fluffy orange sea creature, a robotic-looking deep-sea submersible, a camouflaged octopus, and a translucent red comb jelly. Images credit to NOAA MBARI.

2025 Year in Review 🎁

As we look back on 2025, the team at FathomVerse would like to take this moment to thank every single FathomNaut for playing FathomVerse and contributing to ocean science. Check out the highlights in our latest blog: https://www.fathomverse.game/post/2025-year-in-review

Check out Gallery: Deep Sea December Check it out now!

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 ‘Tis the season of deep-sea art! Join @montereybayaquarium.org, @mbarinews.bsky.social, and @fathomverse.bsky.social with these daily deep-sea inspired art prompts. Submit your deep-sea art to our gallery for all to admire! montereybayaquarium.secondstreetapp.com/Gallery-Deep...

A group of shrimp on a white coral

New #FathomVerse Badge: Sea Fan-atic 🪸

FathomNauts, we're so close to clearing a huge batch of sea fan data from #NOAAOceanExploration! Join our community in November with a run on sea fans: make 15 new sea fan discoveries that FathomVerse agrees with to earn a special badge!

Everyone, hail the Pumpkin King! 🎃#larvacean #deeppiv #mbari #fathomverse YouTube video by FathomVerse

This video was recorded aboard the @mbarinews.bsky.social R/V Rachel Carson. Joost Daniels uses DeepPIV, an innovative imaging technology that utilizes lasers, to scan a larvacean so we can study their intricate structures.

This week’s #DrawnFromTheDeep icon is the larvacean. You can search for larvaceans by playing Bound in FathomVerse, and we encourage you to share your larvacean-inspired art on the FathomVerse Discord! discord.gg/E77WXsfpbD

Everyone, hail the Pumpkin King! 🎃

While we were scanning a larvacean with lasers to create a 3D model of the animal, we noticed a jack-o-lantern-like face appear for just a split second. We decided to nickname this the jack-o-larvacean as our underwater mascot for Halloween. 🌊🐙🧪🎮